Sunday, 12 January 2025

Review - the Stranger in the Room by Luca Veste

The Stranger in the Room by Luca Veste
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release date: 16 January 2025
Back cover blurb: A STRING OF MURDERS. AND THE PERSON WHO LINKS THEM ALL IS . . . YOUR DAUGHTER. Alison Lennon receives the worst news a parent can expect - her son, Ben, has been killed, in what looks at first like a random attack on a dark street in the middle of the night. Only, she knows that he isn't the first victim. Mia Johnstone has just turned eighteen. Ready for the next phase of her life, she should be looking forward to university, studying, partying. Instead, she's thinking about how her boyfriend Ben is the third person close to her to have died. Alison believes that Mia killed her son. Mia needs people to stop calling her a killer. And someone is desperate for the truth to never come out . . .








Luca Veste is one of my favourite authors and I think this is now one of my favourite of his releases.

When Ben is killed on his way home from a night out, at first it looks like a random attack. It was late, it was dark, and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ben's Mother Alison thinks that there is more to it.

She thinks that Mia, Ben's ex-girlfriend is responsible for his death. It seems like too much of a coincidence after other recent murders in the previously quiet and relatively crime free town where they reside.

The Police urge Alison to let them do their thing, they have a number of lines of enquiry and don't need a grieving Mother meddling in the investigation.

But Alison can't help herself and is in danger of jeopardising the entire investigation with her fixation on her son's ex-girlfriend. 

Is Mia really a killer, or it someone even closer to home?

As further evidence is found, Alison must question everything that she thought she knew in order to find the truth. 

The reality will be devastating, but at least she will have closure for Ben.

I don't want to say too much more, and this review I'm aware isn't as detailed as some as I have written, but I really don't want to give anything away, and need you to discover this gem for yourselves!


The Stranger In The Room is available from 16 January 2025. You can pre-order it now via Amazon online and all good book shops.

Thank You to the publishers who approved my request in exchange for an honest review.

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